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For decades, filmmakers worldwide have been remaking Hollywood movies in colorful ways. They've chronicled a singing and dancing Hannibal Lecter in India, star-crossed lovers aboard the doomed Nigerian ship Titanic, a Japanese expedition to the planet of...

A Ghibli masterpiece of the imagination, brought to life with sketches and stills from Arrietty. Co-founded by the legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli films have enthralled and enchanted audiences across the world. The Art of series gives...

A stunning book exploring the art of Sergio Pablos' animated Christmas original, Klaus. A young, lowly Scandinavian postman named Jesper gets the chance to make his mark when he's tasked with bringing the postal service to a contentious village in the...

Ten years after its initial successful publication, The MarvelVault is due for an update. New text and images chroniclehow Marvel has channelled its singular storytelling into ablockbuster movie studio, even as it has stayed true to itshallowed roots in...

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, the fan-favorite Star Wars movie, with this deluxe special edition dedicated to the making of the iconic film. Inside its pages is an in-depth look at how George Lucas expanded the saga with...

Mark J.P. Wolf's study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches...

Dont Look Back, a documentary film of Bob Dylan's 1965 England tour, is recognised as a landmark work in the field of documentary film-making, contributing to the cultural life of an era. This text examines the aesthetic, thematic and social dynamics of...

"[A] well-plotted survey." Total Film In 100 American Horror Films, Barry Keith Grant presents entries on 100 films from one of American cinema's longest-standing, most diverse and most popular genres, representing its rich history from the silent era...

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles' life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and...

?Bringing Up Baby, directed by Howard Hawks in 1938, is one of the greatest screwball comedies and a treasure from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Cary Grant plays a naive and repressed palaeosaurologist who becomes entangled with (and ensnared by) a wilful...

Two of Captain Underpants' funniest and most fearsome adventures in one! Includes a full sheet of stickers! No one loves Halloween more than George Beard and Harold Hutchins. Join...

Among the top-grossing Hollywood blockbusters of all time, Star Wars launched one of the most successful movie and licensing franchises in history. Yet much of the film's backstory was set in Britain, where the original trilogy was made and where early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394643Author Stefan HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Learn all about Newt Scamander and the incredible film from J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Peer inside Newt Scamander's enchanted suitcase, encounter marvellous creatures, roam the streets of 1920s New York City...

This stunning volume is an exclusive look behind the scenes of Disney and Pixar's original feature film Turning Red . In The Art of Turning Red, explore the art and making of Disney and Pixar's newest original feature film. Mei Lee is a confident,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993337154Author Simon W GoldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Apex Publishing LtdPublisher Apex Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394520Author John SzpunarFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

The Internet isn't all cat videos. There's also Felicia Day - violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world . . . or at least...

Amy Sargeant's compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master-servant relationship, from Shakespeare to Cervantes, Henry James, Dorothy L. Sayers...

It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to...

Go behind the scenes with the producer of Father of the Bride to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producer. As former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum...

"'Black Narcissus", now heralded as a masterpiece, is a landmark film in the influential canon of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. With the centenary of Powell's birth in 2005 this timely book - the first dedicated exclusively to the film - draws...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887664134Author Jimmy SangsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Midnight Marquee Press,U.S.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143448990Author Ray SatyajitFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 20mm

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES, featuring interviews with Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Guillermo del ToroBefore the Second World War the Hollywood box office was booming, but the business was accused of being too foreign, too Jewish, too...

Storyboarding is a very tough business, and a new storyboarder really needs to have their wits about them and have professional savvy to survive in this competitive field. Storyboarding: Rules of Thumb offers highly illustrative examples of basic...

For nearly half a century, Roger Ebert's wide knowledge, keen judgment, prodigious energy, and sharp sense of humor made him America's most renowned and beloved film critic. From Ebert's Pulitzer Prize to his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, from his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736891605Author Chris PoggialiFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Mondo BooksPublisher Mondo Books

Once one of the most popular film genres and a key player in the birth of early narrative cinema, the Western has experienced a rebirth in the era of post-classical filmmaking with a small but noteworthy selection of Westerns being produced long after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267856Author Lorenza MAzzettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane Press

The Science of Writing Characters is a comprehensive handbook to help writers create compelling and psychologically-credible characters that come to life on the page. Drawing on the latest psychological theory and research, ranging from personality...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565843530Author Eva PeronFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 175g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345803221Author Christopher PlummerFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm)...

In Urban Horror Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal post-socialist China. Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics from Engels and Merleau-Ponty to Lefebvre and Ranciere, Huang traces...

A leading film critic on the evolving world of streaming media and its impact on society The city at night under lockdown, a time of plague and anxiety. It is an exciting new age of television, the light that flutters in every cell in the city. But no...

The bestselling classic celebrating animation legend Walt Disney by author and photographer Christopher Finch-revised and updated to celebrate Disney 100 Years of Wonder Foreword by legendary Disney animator Floyd Norman (Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452166513Author Peter LordFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Chronicle BooksPublisher Chronicle BooksWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 267mm * 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972667647Author Scott RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio PressWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm)...

Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of Star Wars: The High Republic with this incredibly illustrated guide to the golden age of the Jedi! Set centuries before the Skywalker Saga, this book is the ultimate in-universe guide to the Jedi Knights of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102883Author Foster HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...